Alfred Adler

The oldest of human striving is to be at one with our fellow human beings

Thomas Merton

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Talmud

There are stars who's light only reaches the earth long after they have fallen apart. There are people who's remembrance gives light in this world, long after they have passed away. This light shines in our darkest nights on the road we must follow.

God's Fool

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Death Penalty

Mother Teresa

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Gifts

God created all things...elastic waistbandsare my favorite!

Cluster Map

This Journey

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Counter

Mohandas Gandhi

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

St. Francis of Assisi

Love is...

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres...

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13

Thomas Merton

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

Albert Einstein

There are only twoways to Live your Life.One is as thoughnothing is a Miracle.The other is as ifEverything is a Miracle.

Love IS the Rule

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' "This is the great and foremost commandment. "

And a second is like it, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets." (Matthew 22:37-40)

“We are not called upon to do all the good possible but only that which we can do”

Mother Theodore Guerin

"You don't have to be extraordinary, just forgiving." Mattafix

Loving Commitment

We can disagree on the death penalty, we can disagree on homosexuality, we can disagree on the status of women and still bind our hearts together in a common, united, generous, friendly, loving commitment

Jimmy Carter

"If you are a theologian, you pray truly; and if you pray truly, you are a theologian"

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any "how.'”

Viktor Frankl

We Have Been Called...

We have been called to heal the wounds,

to unite what part has fallen apart,

and to bring home those who have lost their way.

St. Fancis of Assisi

Dalai Lama

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Charter for Compassion

Interdependency

We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately."

Elie Wiesel

Family

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.

If the minds love one another

The home will be as a beautiful as a flower garden.

But if these minds get out of harmony with each other

It is like a storm which plays havoc

With the garden.

The Buddha

Friday, March 28, 2008

Way of the Cross-2008: Station Ten

Breath In,Breath out, Greenpeace

I was fortunate enough to discover the 20th Annual Walk for Justice while I was in Springfield Illinois. The group was inter-denominational. The Stations were landmarks in downtown Springfield that could connect current events to Jesus today. I will review each station one at a time.

Station Ten: The State Journal Register

Station Ten: Jesus is stripped

At the crossroads of knowledge of the existence of global warming and what is needed to reduce its impact, we are charge with a tremendous task. Do we make the connection between our work of peace and justice and our love and respect for Earth and all her creation? Do we see the connection between a golden sunset, a baby’s smile and the rights of everyone, no matter their skin color or facial features, to adequate housing and a decent life?

De we hear the connection between the call of a gull, the whisper of an evening breeze and the rights of all to live in dignity without war and violence? Do we feel the connection between soft kitten fur, a tiny flower’s petals and the need for all of us to good food, compatible companionship and the rights of all to untainted food and clean water?

Are we willing to make the sacrifices necessary for the life of the world that comes after us: our children, their children, and all living beings throughout this great green pulse? Can we use less, give more and allow for the loving, symbiotic mutual stewardship of all creation?

Response:Spirit of Wisdom, bless us with a greater knowledge of Mother Earth. Fill us with love for all her sentient beings, the holy ground on which we step, the life-giving air we breath, the healing water to be shared among plants and animals alike, and the finite resources that are gifts not o be taken for granted.Amen!